Category: Reviews

Glimmer of the Other by Heather G. Harris – A 5-Star Review

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This week KV read and reviewed the urban fantasy, Glimmer of the Other, by Heather G. Harris. About Glimmer of the Other (The Other Realm, Book One) I can tell when you’re lying. Every. Single. Time. I’m Jinx. As a private investigator, being a walking, talking lie detector is a useful skill – but let’s face it, it’s not normal. You’d think it would make my job way too easy, but even with my weird skills, I still haven’t been able to track down my parent’s killers. When I’m hired to find a missing university student, I hope to find Read More …

5-Star Review of Unbelievable by Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee

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I really enjoyed this novellette that takes place between Habiger and Kissee’s Unremarkable and Untouchable. Unbelievable opens immediately after the end of Unremarkable where Saul, newly woken in his first night as a vampire, is recruited by Elliot Ness to serve in a special team determined to bring down the gangster Al Capone. Saul agrees to help but is having some problems adjusting to his new life and giving up his old one. He is trying to come to terms with new abilities, new surroundings, and even a new name, all while missing his family and friends and worrying that Read More …

5-Star Review of Nectar and Ambrosia by E. M. Hamill

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Until a few weeks ago, Callie was a student studying Classical Studies and Anthropology, but she left behind her studies and her adoptive family to flee from a banshee that has hunted her across the country. Following visions that make her have seizures, Callie has stumbled her way to a bar in downtown Kansas City where she discovers that the patrons are not at all the usual midwestern flair. Settling into her new home and new job, Callie’s visions become more dire as she is caught up in a plot that could destroy the world. This book was fantastic. It Read More …

Review of Wrath of the Fury Blade by Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee

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We’re a week into the new year and we’re plowing our way through our to be read and to be reviewed lists and came across this fantastic book that two of us read in 2018 but somehow never reviewed, Wrath of the Fury Blade by Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee. JV reread it this week in preparation for book two in this series coming out this year. Here is our long overdue 5-star review! Following the story of Constable Inspector Reva Lunaria and her new partner, Seeker Ansee Carya, of the Royal Tenyl Constabulary, Wrath of the Fury Blade is Read More …

Review of Transient By Zachry Wheeler

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Transient, by Zachry Wheeler, follows the story of Jonas, a human spy embedded in the eternal-held city of Seattle. Eternals, blood-drinkers who in another age might have called themselves vampires, have taken control of the world and pushed humans to the brink of extinction. After years of war, the eternals have created a stable, nearly utopian society, subsisting on the blood of animals and sparking an age of egalitarian social and technological advancement. An age that the few humans who have survived will do anything to bring to an end. The humans have embedded spies, transients, among the eternals who Read More …

Unremarkable by Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee – A Review

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Unremarkable by Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee could not be any less like its title. This supernatural historical fantasy is set in Chicago in February of 1929 and casts the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in an unexpected way. The novel, the first in a series, is tightly plotted, fast paced, and has plenty of twists and turns to keep readers guessing and engaged. The story follows the character of Saul Imbierowicz, an ordinary man who is just starting his life away from his parents’ home. He lives an ordinary life, with a tiny apartment, no food in the ice Read More …